Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-01
TOLLS ARMY OF OILERS.
RAILROADS. FREIGH HIT HANDLERS
JOIN THE STRiiGERS.


Every Road Entering Jersey City AT
fscted-Refusal of the Companies to
Accede to Demands for Increased
Wages the Cause of the New Trouble.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Demands were
made to day by the freight handlers en-
plOyed by the Central railroad of New
Jersey, by the Pennsylvania railroad and
by the New York, Lake Erie and West
ern, and, 1t is understood, by the en-
ployes of all the roads leading into Jer-
sey City for increased wages and threat
ening to Immediately quit work If their
demands were not complied with. In the
case of the New Jersey Central and Erie,
the concessions asked for by the men were
refused absolutely. The Erie men asked
for reply tomorrow morning, at which
time they said they would strike If their
demands were not complied with, They
were answered at once, however. The
Jersey Central men demanded a reply by
3 O'Clock this afternoon. The road is in
the hands of receivers appointed by the
United States Court. At O'Clock the re-
ceivers rejected the demands. and the
men struck as soon as their committee
reported. The men also declared their
intention not to handle freight which had
previously been handled by nOn-union
labor.
RATHER SWEEPING.
The Jersey Central men presented a
comDrehensible scale of pay, embracing
everything from. freight handlers to
clerks, bookkeepers ard ferry agents, ana
closed with a demand for its adoption,
and also that the coal strike, as far as the
Central railroad of New Jersey is con-
cerned, be settled in twenty-fOur hours
aff fhn tf.. p n nf1
was signed: "By order OF the Bartholdi
Association Executive Committee"
On the New York water front the only
change from Saturday seemed to be that
on every dock so much progress had been
made to supply the places OF strikers that
they can soon be dispensed with alto
gether. On several steamship docks the
work is up to date, On others it is be-
hind hand from one to two days, but work
is not at standstlll on any of them.
The same condition OF affairs prevails
in the coal trade. The shippers on the
Jersey side were but little hampered,
while dealers III New York and Brooklyn
were landing great quantities OF coal in
spite of the strikers. One method was by
several dealers combining and securing
inclOsed docks with steam hosting ap-
paratus, thus requiring less number OF
men.
ANOTHER ARREST.
Thomas Mcdratb, another member of
the execusiye board of tho Ocean Asso-
citation of 'LOngshOremen, was arrested
to-day at noon by United States deputy
marshal, on an order of arrest issued by
Judge Shipman Of the United States Cir
cult Court, in the suit brought against
the board by the Old Dominion Steamship
Company for $40, 600 damages. Later Nc
Grath was released on $4,000 bail.
A COAL SUPPLY OBTAINED.
The Havemeyer Sugar Refining Com
| pany's sugar house in Brooklyn, which
was closed down a week ago for want
of coal, throwing several hundred men out
| of wOrk, was opened again this morn ing,
a full force beng taken on, A supply
of coal sufficient to run the works for
| several weeks has been obtained from
| Weehawken.
1t is stated that two newspapers in the
| city will be visited and requested not to
use steam furnished by nOn-union men.
| if the request is not granted il is possible
| that the union men employed on these
papers will be called out on strike.
The freight handlers of the railroads
held large meetings together tonight. An
ultimatum was presented to the compa-
MES declaring that unless an increase OF
wages was granted before II O'Clock to-
morrow morning all hands would quit
work at noon.
The print mills Of tine Yonkers Carpet
Works, belonging to Alexander SmiGh's
Sons, stopped worked to-day, throwing
800 hands out Of employment. The mill
is out of coal and can get no more. There
is little coal in any of the YODkers fac
tories.
OUT AT HUNTERS POINT.
HUNTERS POINT, l.. L., Jan. 31.-A
gang of stevedores at the Devoes' Manu-
featuring COmpany's docks, which con-
tinued the work OF loading the ship Ever
dale on Saturday after the other gangs
had struck, refused to go to work this
morning. All the steYedores on the oil
docks are now on strike. If the strike
continues the oil works Will shut down.
Four ships are now kept from sailing by
the trouble here.
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